Is Metaphysical Antisupernaturalism Scientific?
The metaphysical aspect of the historical-critical method describes what we must and must not find in the world, and therefore is not based on empirical observation of truth but in actuality a manipulation of form reality. In fact the metaphysical claim becomes more of a statement of faith as opposed to a science based on observable empirical evidence. The unequivocal commitment of historical-critical scholarship to a naturalistic presupposition that rules out the possibility of genuine supernatural occurrences in history at the start is unwarranted and unscientific. Matthew Radcliffe says this: “Methodological Naturalism” ultimately amounts to an interpretive background that determines the kind of things one is prepared to admit as possible constituents of reality…[It] places a limit on the range of acceptable phenomena and it can reinterpret and accommodate anything that doesn’t at first seem to fit…[If] held inflexibly, it amounts to dogmatic enforcement of a metaphysical lens throu
